Knitted drawers



(N o Modl.)

J. HOLMES. KNII'TED DRAWERS.

Patented Apr.28,1891.

Fries.

JOHN HOLMES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

KNITTED DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,051, dated April28, 1891. Application filed December 24, 1890. Serial No. 375,727. (Nomodel.)

T0 all whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, JOHN HOLMES, of Boston, countyof Suffolk, State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Garments, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification, like letters and figures on'the drawings representinglike parts.

This invention has for its object to improve that class of garmentsknown as drawers or the like, my improvement providing for eXtrafullness and strength at the points subjected to greatest strain.

In accordance with this invention the rear portion or seat of thegarment is provided with a gore-piece presenting three iiaps at one end,all of which will preferably be pointed, the central flap being shown aswidened between its end and its junction with the main body of thegore-piece, the side edges of the gore being connected with the sideedges of the 'seat and the side flaps being connected into the innerseams of the legs below the crotch, while the middle ap is carriedthrough the crotch and up to the front of the garment.

I will now proceed to explain the principle of niyinvention by means ofthe accompanying drawings, and then will particularly point out anddistinctly claim the part or improvement which I claim as my invention.

Figure l shows a sufficient portion of a pair of drawers to illustratemyinvention; Fig. 2, a rear side view thereof, and Fig. 3 shows thegore-piece detached.

In the manufacture of drawers in accordance with my invention the blanksfor the production of the two legs AB are knitted as at blanks and inthe regular Way.

The gore, preferably knitted by narrowing and widening, is shaped, asshown at C, to

' leave an upper end c and three pointed tabs c c2 c3, the tabs c c2being longer than the tab c3, the latter tab being wider between itsjunction with the body of the gore and its end than the space betweenthe tabs c c2, such additional width affording additional fullness inthe crotch. Preferably the gore will be thickened or strengthened by theaddition of an extra thread, so as to make the gore stronger between thelines :r2 and x3,

where the drawers are subjected to the great-- est wear.

In the manufacture of the drawers from the proper blanks the blanks forthe production of the legs are doubled on themselves and the edges ofthe fabric for each leg are stitched together to make legs each with aninner seam a up to the points CL2, and the blanks are united one to theother from the points l) to h', (see Fig. 2,) and a waistband l?? isapplied of any usual shape.

The edge 2 to 3 of the gore is -stitched to the leg part A along theline 2 d 3, while the edge 2 to 4 is stitched to the fabric for the legor half B along the line 2 c 4, (see Fig. 2,) the tabs c c2 beingextended down along the legs below the crotch f, the inner edges of thesaid tabs being secured to the leg portions along the lines 3 g and 4 g.

The tab c3, starting from the gore-piece O at h, (see Fig. 3,) is inpractice stitched from h to g to the edges of the tabs c c2, and thenthe narrowed extremity of the central tab c5 is carried under the crotchand the end of the tab stitched to the front plies of the legs along thelines 6 7, as in Fig. 1, substantially to the fly-opening m. This broadbut short tab provides fullness for the crotch and obviates strainingthe drawers, so as to tear them.

I prefer to have the gore in one single piece without seams; but myinvention would be the same should the tabs be stitched to the main partof the gore.

A gore-piece without the central tab c3 has been used prior to theiiling of this application; but the addition of the said tab affordsgreater fullness and adds materially to the strength, set, anddurability of the garment in the crotch, where the strain on the garmentis greatest.

I claiml. A nether garment comprising leg portions and a gore-pieceapplied to the seat of the garment, and having substantially paralleltabs c c2 applied to the rear portions of the leg portions, and anintermediate tab widened between its ends and carried across the crotchforwardly to the front of the garment, substantially as described.

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'2. A nether garment comprising leg por- 4 tions and a gore-piecethickened between its in testimony whereof I have signed my naine endsand applied to the seat ot the garment` t to this specification in thepresence ot two 1o and having substantially parailel tabs @y tr' tsnbseriliint;` witnesses.

applied to the rear portions ot" the leg poi'- 5 tions, and anintermediate tab widened bep tween its ends and carried across thecrotch t Witnesses:

forwardly to the front ot the garment, :snh- BERNICE J. NOYEs,

stantially as described. l EDWARD FLLEN.

JOHN HOLMES.

